Reading Ethics

by Miranda Fricker (Editor)

This text encourages students to engage with key problems and arguments in ethics through a series of classic and contemporary readings.This text encourages students to engage with ethical issues through a series of classic and contemporary readingsReadings are accompanied by interactive commentary from the editorsInspires students to think about the nature of moral philosophy and to draw comparisons between different traditionsThemes include: the nature of goodness, subjectivity and objectivity, justice and virtue, moral motivation, moral obligation, and literature as moral philosophyReadings range from Plato's "Republic" to Rawls' "A Theory of Justice"

344 pages, Hardcover

First published September 22, 2008

About the author

Miranda Fricker is an English philosopher who is currently Distinguished Professor of Philosophy at the City University of New York Graduate Center.